Prof. Dr. Markus Axer

CURRENT POSITION(S)

since 2021 | W2 University Professor for Imaging in Medical Research and Diagnostics | Department of Physics, School of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, University of Wuppertal, Germany

since 2020 | Deputy Director | Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine (INM-1), Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany

since 2014 | Head of Fiber Architecture Research Group | Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine (INM-1), Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany

PREVIOUS POSITION(S)

2006 – 2014 | Research Associate | Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine (INM-1), Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany

2004 – 2006 | Research Fellow | Department of Physics, Division Microelectronics and Optical Elements (PH-MIC-OE), European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland

2003 – 2004 | Research Associate | Department of Physics, RWTH Aachen University, Germany

EDUCATION

2000 – 2003 | Doctoral research study | Degree: Dr. rer. nat. in Physics, Department of Physics, RTWH Aachen University, Germany

1994 – 1999 | Study of physics | Degree: Diplom Physik (Dipl. Phys.), Department of Physics, RWTH Aachen University, Germany

FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS

2021 | Best Scientific Image Award | Helmholtz

2004 – 2006 | Postdoctoral Fellowship | Department of Physics, Division Microelectronics and Optical Elements (PH-MIC-OE), European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland

2004 | Borchers-Badge (awarded for outstanding PhD thesis) | RWTH Aachen University, Germany

2001 – 2004 | Scholarship Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), Elementary particles at the TeV scale | RWTH Aachen University, Germany

2000 | Scholarship Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), Strong and weak interactions at high energy physics | RWTH Aachen University, Germany

Selection

Axer, M., Amunts, K. (2022). Scale matters: The nested human connectome. Science 378.

Yendiki, A., Aggarwal, M., Axer, M., Howard, A.F.D., van Walsum, A.V.C., Haber, S.N. (2022). Post mortem mapping of connectional anatomy for the validation of diffusion MRI. NeuroImage 256.

Stacho, M., Herold, C., Rook, N., Wagner, H., Axer, M., Amunts, K., Güntürkün, O. (2020). A cortex-like canonical circuit in the avian forebrain. Science 369.

Menzel, M., Axer, M., De Raedt, H., Costantini, I., Silvestri, L., Pavone, F.S., Amunts, K., Michielsen, K. (2020). Toward a High-Resolution Reconstruction of 3D Nerve Fiber Architectures and Crossings in the Brain Using Light Scattering Measurements and Finite-Difference Time-Domain Simulations. Physical Review X 10.

Axer, M., Amunts, K., Gräßel, D., Palm, C., Dammers, J., Axer, H., Pietrzyk, U., Zilles, K. (2011). A novel approach to the human connectome: ultra-high resolution mapping of fiber tracts in the brain. NeuroImage 54.